Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!ucbvax.berkeley.edu!info-vax From: MHJohnson@HI-MULTICS.ARPA (Mark Johnson) Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: RE: Ada question Message-ID: <860123160330.003765@HI-MULTICS.ARPA> Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 11:03:00 EST Article-I.D.: HI-MULTI.860123160330.003765 Posted: Thu Jan 23 11:03:00 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jan-86 05:17:06 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 16 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa I have a couple of comments about using Ada systems now available. (1) Verdix should come out with a VMS version of their Ada development system in the next month or so. We have a preliminary version of it & it works pretty well in the areas that are completed. The only real worry I have is the way it works with VMS since it is a port from Unix & I am quite aware of the pitfalls that can arise. We are really looking at Verdix for cross compilers to the 68000 & other systems. (2) In talking with a developer at Alsys, he indicated that they have pretty much left their VAXen behind after moving the compiler to the PC-AT. He indicated that the PC-AT gave them similar performance to a VAX-11/750. The trade-off I see for their product is capacity of the host system & whether you need software development tools you may already have on your VAX. Perhaps the bang per buck equation will change with the new CPU's that DEC will come out with. --Mark